The Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona is pleased to be hosting the 2018 Rocky Mountain Scholars Conference. It will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24, 2018. This conference will feature presentations by scholars from the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT).

The featured guest for is Dr. John Roeder from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Roeder will present the keynote address, titled “Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World.” In addition, a total of 68 scholarly papers will be presented throughout the two days.

All events will take place in the Fred Fox School of Music. For further information regarding registration, conference hotel, and local arrangements, please visit the conference website, http://rmc.music.arizona.edu/. This will be continuously updated until the conference.

As a music theorist and analyst, I describe ways that people conceive of music, and how music is heard to organize time coherently, expressively, and meaningfully. I concentrate on music of special relevance today: recent works by contemporary composers in the Western art-music tradition, and the “world music” that globalization is now bringing to everyone’s ears. I have also directed graduate-student research in popular music, jazz, Renaissance polyphony, phenomenology, and spectral music. I am especially interested in rhythm, meter, musical transformations, mathematical and computational approaches to music, issues of semiosis and representation, and processive approaches to music. From 2000-2007 I directed research into strategies for preserving digitally created information, including music, as a member of the InterPARES project. I have held grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study Transformation in Contemporary Art Music, Periodicity in Music, and Approaches to the Analysis of Musical Time (the latter two in collaboration with my ethnomusicologist colleague, Michael Tenzer).I’ve served on the editorial boards of Perspectives of New Music , Music Theory Spectrum, and Journal of Music Theory. I’ve been active in the Society for Music Theory, chairing, for instance, the Publications Committee. In June 2003 I conducted a Workshop at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory on “Transformational Approaches to Contemporary Music,” and in November 2008 I led a seminar on “Analyzing Contemporary Music” for the Graduate Student Workshop Program of the Society for Music Theory.